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In my home, you either spoke six languages fluently or you stayed completely silent.

Have you ever been punished for something so ridiculous, it completely shattered your reality? My mom once slapped me so hard I flew out of my chair… and my crime? I accidentally used a French word on a day when I was only supposed to speak Spanish. You see, neither of my parents spoke a single word of anything but English. But they had this deep, bizarre obsession that multilingual people were some kind of superior species, and that they’d ruined their own lives by only knowing one language. My mom would literally cry watching videos of people switching between languages, sobbing about how beautiful it was and how stupid she felt. My dad would get hammered and just go on these long, rambling rants about how if he’d just learned languages as a kid, he could’ve been someone important, not just a guy working in a warehouse.